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Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Schwister — Ready for the Start
1911
John Schwister and his home-built airplane, "the Minnesota Badger," at the Langlade County Fairgrounds.
Schwister's Minnesota-Badger
1912
John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister is unidentified.
Maitland's Fokker
June 1927
The Fokker airplane in which Lt. Lester Maitland of Milwaukee and Lt. Albert Hegenberger made the first California to Hawaii trans-Pacific crossing.
Balloon Gondola
1918
The gondola crew of a World War I observation balloon that is about to ascend. Observation balloons were positioned near the front so that men in the gondola could observe troop movements and calcu...
Balloons Ascending — 1981 SHS Calendar Cover
1981
Outside front cover of the 1981 State Historical Society calendar. View of hot air balloons ascending near Wisconsin Dells.
Home-Built Airplane by Mel Thompson
The bi-plane constructed by Melvin Thompson during the years 1918-1920 on his farm near the former quarry in Lamont Township.
